The Modern Digital Tragedy: Why Dev Teams Fail At User Experience (And What They Can Do About It)
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Developers often fail to make first rate user interfaces. Creating exceptional digital products is not easy. Most development-centered firms focus on technical concerns to the exclusion of usability. As a result, their sites, apps, and software are confusing and difficult to use. They have sacrificed form on the altar of function.
As the competitive landscape increasingly requires more user-friendly products, development teams employ a variety of tactics to improve user interfaces. Unfortunately, these approaches often fail because they don’t address core user experience problems.
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All Posts in This Series
- The Impossible Standard of Digital Product Perfection
- Stop Relying on Process Change to Fix Poor UX
- Feedback From Customers, Users, and Competitors Can Lead Your Dev Team Astray
- Training and Online Help Can’t Fix Poor Digital Product Design
- Pretty Colors and Pictures Won’t Make Your Digital Product’s Experience Any Better
- Why Development-Centered UI Approaches Fail
Written By Dean Schuster
Founder and Owner of truematter
Dean Schuster has been creating human-centered digital products since the beginning of the commercial web. He speaks and teaches user experience all over the world.
